ABSTRACT
Throughout this book we have primarily focused on heterosexual men who provide primary care to their children. By contrast, in this chapter we focus on gay men who provide primary care, and specifically small screen fictional representations of such men. In so doing, we suggest that in some ways, and due to homonormativity, representations of gay men who provide primary care mirror representations of heterosexual fathers who provide primary care. At the same time, in this chapter we also explore how representations of gay fathers depart from representations of heterosexual fathers, particularly due to normative assumptions about gay men and parenting. As such, this chapter provides an important extra dimension to this book, and further highlights how norms about gender and masculinity operate.
